One last thing I caught just before the end, a very cool display for Suikouden HD featuring original art and character design sheets from the game’s developments

Thought the docs would be of interest so I’ll share a few tweets of these to end tweets on the event #TGS2022 Had to take these quick as they’re closing up shop so sorry if the Suikouden pics are a little rough #TGS2022

Never been misgendered in Japan while speaking EN or 日本語 (a lot of Japanese isn’t gendered anyhow but I’ve never had male terms used for me) in 2019 or since I returned, but a booth staffer who refused to speak Japanese when I did just said ‘he, she, /what/ are you’ so… fun I did not stay to play their game

Happy Science are one of the most recognizable New Religious groups in Japan with a media empire packaging ultra-nationalist rhetoric and outlandish spiritualism into a wealth of movies and books. In the wake of Shinzo Abe’s assassination, what’s next?

(LONG Thread incoming 🧵)

https://twitter.com/inversedotcom/status/1570812259919712261

Over the past 6 months I’ve immersed myself into the world of Happy Science. I’ve seen all their movies, visited their temples, read numerous books, magazines and articles from and about them, to drive to the core of what this group is

Not who are Happy Science, but why.

Right, more detailed twitter thread summary of the Anno editorial before I do other stuff (and maybe go out somewhere later).

I’ll add my article for Otaquest on this to the end of the thread once it goes online

Here’s a link to Anno’s article once more

https://twitter.com/khara_inc/status/1211398615261798400

Anno viewed the article as his responsibility in light of reporting which linked the arrest of the current director of Gainax for inappropriate conduct with a voice actor including naked photos, because reports about it being the Evangelion studio made it seem like it was him

Tl;dr

This is an op-ed of Hideaki Anno finally becoming too sick of Gainax’s mishandling of Eva, his works, the company, its workers and more, and airing the details in public about their bad management practices when it comes to Eva and more

https://twitter.com/khara_inc/status/1211398615261798400

The details here, such as needing a loan of 100 million yen in under 3 days or ‘they’d be crushed’ and more are a DAMNING inditement of the state of Gainax, going all the way back to the immediate aftermath of Eva premiering and making money